Or de Calambac

#1213 in my "Tour de Fragrance" This scent contains so many notes I usually dislike that I was taken by surprise by how well all this works. Another grand slam for Alberto Morillas: ADP "Colonia Intensa", Amouage "Journey Man" and "Opus VII Reckless Leather", Antonio Puig "Aqua Quorum", the Bvlgari "Man in Black" series, and on and on. A largely self-taught master, he really has no equal. If I had to live in a world where he was the only perfumer, I'd be fine with it, though he seems to have retired. I'm betting on Quentin Bisch to take that throne if he stays in the game as long as Morillas has. I found this in a sprayette on sale on Amazon for $11, loved it, found the 100ml on sale for $85 on Amazon, which was $50 less than I could find it elsewhere, and that bottle is on its way. I almost never find good prices on Amazon, so It was just dumb luck that I was looking over the deals and ran across it. Strange that the Amazon seller listed it as a woman's fragrance as it's not a woman's scent on any planet I've visited. This is very masculine in every accord. Long lasting on the skin. Moderate projection. Very leather, nuts, anise, cinnamon and myrrh. Very heavy and oriental, but without the Damascus or Turkish rose notes that tend to make those scents a bit too much for me. Orientals were an acquired taste for me and I now prefer them. I'd say if you run across this for less than $100 I'd just go for it. If not, I'd get a sample first. Morillas got lazy and repeated most of the accords in this scent just a year later for Philipp Plein "No Limit$", which you can typically find for $45. It's too chocolatey sweet for me and the added vanilla takes away from the overall woodiness this Chopard scent features, though if you lean more gourmand than oriental you might prefer that scent to this. Good luck and good hunting!

Oh my lord. To me, this smells like Mexican hot chocolate with oud! 😍 I love it. I wear this all year round even in summer and it does not get cloying at all. Excellent fragrance

One of the best fragrances out there. Perfect for autumn winter nights.

So smooth and pleasing! Smells really expensive and natural.

The green nuances; notably the hazelnut and cypress (which I get right in the opening) feel a bit unwelcome in what is otherwise a pleasant warm amber with a lovely subtle leather accord from the labdanum and oud. The ‘green’ hazelnut note suits scents like Jo malone oak and hazelnut but in here it feels somewhat misplaced. Thankfully it tapers off after 30 mins. The pink pepper in the opening gives this a good amount of spark, paired with the juniper and vetiver offering an aromatic quality, contrasting the gourmand notes. I’m not sure if it needs to do both, and in my opinion feels like it’s trying to please too many tastes by going in two different directions when it would excel as a stand-alone amber/gourmand with a heavier dose of notes like cinnamon and cacao etc. hell maybe even more oud. The dry-down settles on myrh, labdanum, and oud which I like. It’s very wearable but isn’t groundbreaking and only just misses the mark for me. Bears resemblance to Monarch boadicea and Halfeti in the sparkling-warm-spicy department. Longevity is good and projection is average